Flash Report: Carlsen Wins World Blitz Championship, Assaubayeva Defends Women’s Title

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Flash Report: Carlsen Wins World Blitz Championship, Assaubayeva Defends Women’s Title

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December 30, 2022

Flash Report: Carlsen Wins World Blitz Championship, Assaubayeva Defends Women’s Title

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This is a flash report. The full report might be added shortly.

GM Magnus Carlsen clinched the 2022 FIDE World Blitz Championship title on Friday with a rating of 16/21, one level forward of silver medalist GM Hikaru Nakamura and bronze medalist on tiebreak, GM Haik Martirosyan.

Carlsen’s victory, which was confirmed when he poetically defeated GM Nodirbek Abdusattorv within the ultimate spherical, signifies that he concurrently holds all three world chess titles for the primary time since his Uzbek opponent nabbed the world fast title from him in 2021.

IM Bibisara Assaubayeva produced a historic end result within the ladies’s championship and have become the third girl in historical past to defend the world blitz title after scoring 5 straight wins in opposition to the leaders of the match to grab the title on house soil.

The Kazakh famous person regarded down and out after dropping to a surging IM Polina Shuvalova, however the back-end streak pushed her to a profitable rating of 13/17, intently adopted by GM Humpy Koneru on 12.5/17 and Shuvalova on 12/17.

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Rk.	Fed	Title	Name	Rtg	Pts.
1		GM	Magnus Carlsen	2830	16
2		GM	Hikaru Nakamura	2909	15
3		GM	Haik Martirosyan	2745	15
4		GM	Anish Giri	2792	14.5
5		GM	Jan-Krzysztof Duda	2773	14.5
6		GM	Daniil Dubov	2792	14.5
7		GM	Alexey Sarana	2708	14.5
8		GM	Vladimir Fedoseev	2733	14
9		GM	Richard Rapport	2654	14
10		GM	Vladislav Artemiev	2803	13.5
11		GM	Dmitry Andreikin	2735	13.5
12		GM	Ian Nepomniachtchi	2782	13.5
13		GM	Vincent Keymer	2600	13.5
14		GM	A.R. Saleh Salem	2633	13.5
15		GM	Fabiano Caruana	2847	13
16		GM	Denis Lazavik	2484	13
17		GM	Pentala Harikrishna	2617	13
18		GM	Sarin Nihal	2702	13
19		GM	Nodirbek Abdusattorov	2666	13
20		GM	Daniel Dardha	2528	13

Rk.	Fed	Title	Name	Rtg	Pts.
1		IM	Bibisara Assaubayeva	2404	13
2		GM	Humpy Koneru	2474	12.5
3		IM	Polina Shuvalova	2361	12
4		GM	Tan Zhongyi	2510	12
5		IM	Meri Arabidze	2404	11.5
6		GM	Kateryna Lagno	2522	11
7		GM	Nana Dzagnidze	2416	11
8		IM	Olga Badelka	2337	11
9		GM	Elisabeth Paehtz	2396	11
10		IM	Gunay Mammadzada	2383	11
11		GM	Antoaneta Stefanova	2427	11
12		GM	Zhansaya Abdumalik	2413	11
13		GM	Harika Dronavalli	2407	10.5
14		GM	Elina Danielian	2331	10.5
15		GM	Alexandra Kosteniuk	2469	10.5
16		WFM	Umida Omonova	1978	10.5
17		IM	Padmini Rout	2298	10.5
18		IM	Anna Zatonskih	2362	10.5
19		GM	Valentina Gunina	2368	10
20		GM	Aleksandra Goryachkina	2484	10

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